Riiiighhhtt. So who is going to write this 'programming environment for idiots?" Surely it must be recognized that you are just moving the complexity problem to a different layer with this approach, PLUS losing the ability to gain low level access when needed.
Merril Lynch was doing a survey of large (i.e. stagnant dinosaur) company CIOs. Their ability to predict the future has been wrong for the entire history of the IT industry, and has been proven wrong in this specific case for the simple reason that government figures are reporting exactly the opposite of thier consensus.
What feature of the new systems (other than speed) do you see as opening support for new apps that answer some need of business?
Massive amounts of data storage capacity for the buck. Storage capacity growth has been increasing at greater than Moore's Law rates, and at the same time we have been accumulating 800 MB of data per every man woman and child on the face of the Earth every year. The need to manage all of this with software is a staggering business need, and will lead to lots of new software development.
Another area in computer hardware that has been increasing at ridiculous rates is network bandwidth. This has been increasing faster than even storage capacity. The problem with taking advantage of this has been entrenched industrial concerns. Eventually, although maybe not this business cycle bandwidth growth will trigger ANOTHER software revolution where people will truly become walking network nodes. When that happens most offices will totally disappear.
The fact is I think we haven't seen anything yet, and the Internet boom was just the first and weakest wave of what is yet to come.
Eventually technology will automate a lot of people out of work.
It's called progress, and is the reason that the standard of living improves with time. It used to be that 90% of the population lived on farms because growing food was so labor intensive.
What we are facing over the next 20 years is a MASSIVE labor shortage as the boomers retire. The result of this will be a large increase in individual worker productivity because businesses will be forced to automate to get the most from the few workers they can get.
This "recovery" doesn't look like one to the average wage-earner.
One thing that people have a hard time understanding is that the wage earner doesn't see a recovery until it is well underway. Businesses don't hire until they absolutely have to - until their current staff is saturated, and they can't get enough contractors to get the work done.
Job creation is a 'trailing indicator'; when it starts improving the recovery is already well underway.
Leading indicators are things like building permits, interest rates, stock prices, and so on. These have been positive for a while now.
"employer owns patents" stuff purely comes as a result between a contract between you are your employer, subject to all the uncertainties of contract law without even getting into the additional problems the employment relationship brings into it.
Who is stupider than a pathetic moron then? Truly it must be yourself for asserting such nonsense.
Without a contract an employer can assert any number of reasons that it might own the invention. One is the "hired to invent" assertion which gives the employer the right to claim that by hiring the employee and directing said employee to solve the problem, the employee's work product is expected to be an invention which if patentable will be owned by the employer.
See Teets v. Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., 83 F.3d 403 (Fed. Cir. 1996).
Furthermore, if democracy is so grand, why aren't companies democratic? As well, if this is a republic, why don't we own our workplaces.
More than 50% of working Americans own stock in publically traded companies. That stock usually comes with voting rights for the owners. This makes companies both owned by the workers, and democratic.
It's a standard part of US employment law that if you are indeed an employee rather than an independent contractor that any intellecual property that you generate does in fact belong lock stock and barrel to your employer. They don't even owe you the shiny dollar.
Some companies are more generous, offering a few shares of stock or whatever.
I know in Europe you have a somewhat better situation, especially if the invention is worth a LOT of money in the long run, but how far that goes I don't know.
I never thought it was a big deal in my job - generating these things was what I was being paid for, and in reality very few patents ever turn out to be commercially valuable anyway.
shouldn't decisions based on taxpayer money usually be based on cost analysis?
Cost analysis, like every other decision making process is subject to interpitation. In this case, the winner of the cost analysis will be the organization that does the best job of influencing the parameters of the cost analysis to favor their product.
Since that is the case I think other criterea need to be considered - including the issue of proprietary protocols, closed source, file systems and file formats. In my opinion these do not belong in government. Government has a perfect right to set bid proposal parameters for software acquisition - and if Microsoft wants to play, it needs to meet these parameters.
The netcraft web survey shows that there are about 42 million domains, 28 million of which are hosted on Apache systems, 10 million on Windows.
Of that 42 million, 325 thousand are now running Windows 2003. Of that 325 thousand, 5% were running Linux, or about 16 thousand. Now that 16 thousand actually accounts for a transition to Windows 2003 for 1 out of every 2,000 Apache domains.
What is doesn't show is what the overall change in Windows vs Apache is - in the same time frame that Windows 2003 was growing to 385,000 sites, Windows overall actually lost 3% domain share to Apache, or 1.2 million domains. So the transition of ex Apache sites to Server 2003 is equal to about 1% of the switch away from Windows to Apache that occurred during this same time period.
On a global basis Windows is losing market share to Apache based web serving at a rate 100 times greater than this supposed switch from Linux to Windows 2003.
My alma mater uses the Library of Congress system for numbering its books.
Gee, when I was at Yale they were using their own classification system in many of the archives. Seems that the Yale library was founded before the LOC system or Dewey Decimal systems were invented, so they had to make up their own.
Personally I think the LOC system is the best, though.
I cannot understand why american companies are in this suing fury about copyright/trademark infringement.
There is nothing new going on here, except slashdot is publicizing it. In particular trademarks MUST be protected by the company owning them, or they will lose them.
HOW IN HELL is trhere still a valid copyright on something THAT old??
Read the article dumbass. This is a trademark infringement case where the Hotel is using the "Dewey Decimal System" name without permission. The suit has nothing to do with copyrights.
Problem with using Yahoo and Amazon as case studies is that they any but typical applications.
Exactly. For example, the reason Yahoo excluded J2EE from contention is that FreeBSD has crappy threading support. Most organizations would question the use of FreeBSD rather than exclude J2EE under these circumstances.
The average price of a PHP dynamic website is USD 6.000
a regular company receives USD 75.000 income from PHP development per year
one website takes approximately 32 work days to be completed.
There are 75.000 PHP development companies in the world, totalling 150.000 professional developers.
These numbers are very bad. $75,000 income for the work of two developers? Throw in 50% overhead, s&a etc. and each developer is getting paid $17,000 or so per year. You can get paid more as an assistant manager at McDonald's.
creating a whole object structure on the server to manage data is a waste of time because the objects are lost after the request completes anyway and have to be recreated on each subsequent HTTP request.
Nonsense. J2EE supplies session and application scopes that provide the ability to maintain objects for the lifetime of the user session and application respectively.
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Riiiighhhtt. So who is going to write this 'programming environment for idiots?" Surely it must be recognized that you are just moving the complexity problem to a different layer with this approach, PLUS losing the ability to gain low level access when needed.
Merril Lynch was doing a survey of large (i.e. stagnant dinosaur) company CIOs. Their ability to predict the future has been wrong for the entire history of the IT industry, and has been proven wrong in this specific case for the simple reason that government figures are reporting exactly the opposite of thier consensus.
What feature of the new systems (other than speed) do you see as opening support for new apps that answer some need of business?
Massive amounts of data storage capacity for the buck. Storage capacity growth has been increasing at greater than Moore's Law rates, and at the same time we have been accumulating 800 MB of data per every man woman and child on the face of the Earth every year. The need to manage all of this with software is a staggering business need, and will lead to lots of new software development.
Another area in computer hardware that has been increasing at ridiculous rates is network bandwidth. This has been increasing faster than even storage capacity. The problem with taking advantage of this has been entrenched industrial concerns. Eventually, although maybe not this business cycle bandwidth growth will trigger ANOTHER software revolution where people will truly become walking network nodes. When that happens most offices will totally disappear.
The fact is I think we haven't seen anything yet, and the Internet boom was just the first and weakest wave of what is yet to come.
Eventually technology will automate a lot of people out of work.
It's called progress, and is the reason that the standard of living improves with time. It used to be that 90% of the population lived on farms because growing food was so labor intensive.
What we are facing over the next 20 years is a MASSIVE labor shortage as the boomers retire. The result of this will be a large increase in individual worker productivity because businesses will be forced to automate to get the most from the few workers they can get.
This "recovery" doesn't look like one to the average wage-earner.
One thing that people have a hard time understanding is that the wage earner doesn't see a recovery until it is well underway. Businesses don't hire until they absolutely have to - until their current staff is saturated, and they can't get enough contractors to get the work done.
Job creation is a 'trailing indicator'; when it starts improving the recovery is already well underway.
Leading indicators are things like building permits, interest rates, stock prices, and so on. These have been positive for a while now.
Surely even Windows Update covers this.
.Mac that allow you to move data to a remote location and store it during an upgrade.
Read the patent. Windows Update is outside the art described here.
What should be counted as prior art are services like X-Drive and
"employer owns patents" stuff purely comes as a result between a contract between you are your employer, subject to all the uncertainties of contract law without even getting into the additional problems the employment relationship brings into it.
Who is stupider than a pathetic moron then? Truly it must be yourself for asserting such nonsense.
Without a contract an employer can assert any number of reasons that it might own the invention. One is the "hired to invent" assertion which gives the employer the right to claim that by hiring the employee and directing said employee to solve the problem, the employee's work product is expected to be an invention which if patentable will be owned by the employer.
See Teets v. Chromalloy Gas Turbine Corp., 83 F.3d 403 (Fed. Cir. 1996).
Furthermore, if democracy is so grand, why aren't companies democratic? As well, if this is a republic, why don't we own our workplaces.
More than 50% of working Americans own stock in publically traded companies. That stock usually comes with voting rights for the owners. This makes companies both owned by the workers, and democratic.
It's a standard part of US employment law that if you are indeed an employee rather than an independent contractor that any intellecual property that you generate does in fact belong lock stock and barrel to your employer. They don't even owe you the shiny dollar.
Some companies are more generous, offering a few shares of stock or whatever.
I know in Europe you have a somewhat better situation, especially if the invention is worth a LOT of money in the long run, but how far that goes I don't know.
I never thought it was a big deal in my job - generating these things was what I was being paid for, and in reality very few patents ever turn out to be commercially valuable anyway.
This reminds me of an episode of Calvin and Hobbes where ole' Spiff almost doesn't make it.
Yes, about 5x faster.
shouldn't decisions based on taxpayer money usually be based on cost analysis?
Cost analysis, like every other decision making process is subject to interpitation. In this case, the winner of the cost analysis will be the organization that does the best job of influencing the parameters of the cost analysis to favor their product.
Since that is the case I think other criterea need to be considered - including the issue of proprietary protocols, closed source, file systems and file formats. In my opinion these do not belong in government. Government has a perfect right to set bid proposal parameters for software acquisition - and if Microsoft wants to play, it needs to meet these parameters.
Built in 1982. Still hasn't been improved on.
significantly rewrite their pages
The article greatly exagurates the changes needed. The rewrite consists of putting some tags into document.write() statements in javascript.
Not a big deal.
Yes, also pencils have an undo function also. They are not write-once like pens.
5% of What?
The netcraft web survey shows that there are about 42 million domains, 28 million of which are hosted on Apache systems, 10 million on Windows.
Of that 42 million, 325 thousand are now running Windows 2003. Of that 325 thousand, 5% were running Linux, or about 16 thousand. Now that 16 thousand actually accounts for a transition to Windows 2003 for 1 out of every 2,000 Apache domains.
What is doesn't show is what the overall change in Windows vs Apache is - in the same time frame that Windows 2003 was growing to 385,000 sites, Windows overall actually lost 3% domain share to Apache, or 1.2 million domains. So the transition of ex Apache sites to Server 2003 is equal to about 1% of the switch away from Windows to Apache that occurred during this same time period.
On a global basis Windows is losing market share to Apache based web serving at a rate 100 times greater than this supposed switch from Linux to Windows 2003.
And if it's trademarked, there shouldn't be any problem, since they don't call themselves the "Dewey Decimal Hotel."
It's trademarked, and there is a problem because they are using the Dewey Decimal System name in their advertising without permission.
My alma mater uses the Library of Congress system for numbering its books.
Gee, when I was at Yale they were using their own classification system in many of the archives. Seems that the Yale library was founded before the LOC system or Dewey Decimal systems were invented, so they had to make up their own.
Personally I think the LOC system is the best, though.
I cannot understand why american companies are in this suing fury about copyright/trademark infringement.
There is nothing new going on here, except slashdot is publicizing it. In particular trademarks MUST be protected by the company owning them, or they will lose them.
HOW IN HELL is trhere still a valid copyright on something THAT old??
Read the article dumbass. This is a trademark infringement case where the Hotel is using the "Dewey Decimal System" name without permission. The suit has nothing to do with copyrights.
but actually in some countries (Romania for example, or even France), USD 17000 might be a decent salary.
Romania, Russia, India, sure. It is totally out of the question in France or any other place in the G7.
You should also complain to the Federal Trade Commission.
Problem with using Yahoo and Amazon as case studies is that they any but typical applications.
Exactly. For example, the reason Yahoo excluded J2EE from contention is that FreeBSD has crappy threading support. Most organizations would question the use of FreeBSD rather than exclude J2EE under these circumstances.
The average price of a PHP dynamic website is USD 6.000
a regular company receives USD 75.000 income from PHP development per year
one website takes approximately 32 work days to be completed.
There are 75.000 PHP development companies in the world, totalling 150.000 professional developers.
These numbers are very bad. $75,000 income for the work of two developers? Throw in 50% overhead, s&a etc. and each developer is getting paid $17,000 or so per year. You can get paid more as an assistant manager at McDonald's.
creating a whole object structure on the server to manage data is a waste of time because the objects are lost after the request completes anyway and have to be recreated on each subsequent HTTP request.
Nonsense. J2EE supplies session and application scopes that provide the ability to maintain objects for the lifetime of the user session and application respectively.